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VOL. XXXtn No. 258 -_ ESTABLISHED 1892 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. FRIDAY. MARCH 19. 1926 EIGHT PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS A COPT
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TjROWNSVILLE and her sister
cities of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley bid welcome to the delegates
to the Southwest Shippers’ Advisory
Board.
Today’s is the largest single meet-
ing that the Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley has ever entertained. Every
possible arrangement has been made
to assure the comfort of the visit-
ors and Brownsville and Valley citi-
lens generally sincerely wish for the
delegates a successful business ses-
sion and a generally pleasant visit
to this section.
The shippers are in the Valley at a
time when it is producing some of
the most beautiful and profitable
crops such as cabbags beans pota-
toes carrots beet* and other garden
truck. Rains of the past few days
assure a $2500000 to $3500000 irish
potato crop on about 6500 acres and
also a splendid crop of beans but
these same rains w.ll preclude the
visitors seeing our farmers in action
digging cutting picking loading
etc.
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Speaking of crops the Lone Star
Immigrat on Company of which Lee
B. James and A. I). Dickinson Jr.
•re the owners advance a rather
unique method of placing a sales
value on land to purchasers in the
El Jardin district east of Browns-
ville.
In an advertisement elsewhere in
The Herald toc'ay this company of-
fers to sell any of its land in El Jar-
din at a price equivalent to the av-
erage value of the three best crops
of potatoes this season produced in
the El Jardin.
There is a selling argument based
on as sound a method of valuation as
one could possibly wish for. It means
that this land is producing at this
time a crop the value of which will
pay for the land in a single year.
The idea came to Mr. James a
f«w days ago in selling a tract. He
offered the land to his prospect at
$600 an acre. The pros|>ect demur-
red after which Mr. James made
the alternative offer; that is th it
he will sell the man land at the av-
erage value of the three best crops
of potatoes this year on the El Jar-
din. The man looked up market pros-
pects for potatoes investigated <iv
erage production—and decided in-
stead that he would take the land at
$500 an acre.
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Something like 2000 carloads of
cabbage have been shipped out of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley this
season which is estimated to be
two-thirds of the crop. The price
has been $;{0 and above to the farm-
ers at all times during the season.
Which means that farmers of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley have re-
ceived approximately $1000000 for
their cabbage crop.
And not to mention beets carrots
and other vegetables the prices for
which have not in all cases been as
satisfactory this year as has the
price of cabbage.
Then still to come arc the po-
tatoes and beans as mentioned above.
And roasting ears in May of which
there will be from 500 to 1000 cars.
And cotton in July August and
September. And a few early vege-
tables in October and the yellowing
grapefruit in November and Decem-
ber and cabbage and other winter
crops from there on out.
It's a perfect eyile '
All because of .soil of climate of
water—and n bunch of folks who be
lieve firmly in the continued proa
perity of their chosen land.
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S. Lamar Gil! of Raymondville
■ends Billie Burnett secretary of the
Rio Grande Valley Baseball League
good wishes for a successful season
ior the league.
The Valley seems to be fortunate
this vear in being able to start the
season with a wcil rounded organiza-
tion one formed to do business from
a baseball standpoint.
Some day professional baseball
will he an important factor in the
sport field in this section and a
small beginning is the proper way
to begin life.
A lack of a ball park for the
Brownsville aggregation threatened
for a time to break up the local pros-
pects. but this has all been ironed
out and the former field on upper St.
Charles will be used.
The residents of the Washington
Fark neighborhood cannot be blamed
for protesting against boarding up
the grounds there for a ball park.
The park itself has not always been
exactly a beauty spot unfortunately
but certainlv a hoard fence would
not improve its appearance.
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Beans must be in great demand
judging from the report from Hous-
ton that a shipment to that point
from the Valley brought $15 a hamp-
er. The beans were sent out by
Wade & Newton of San Benito and
were grown by Jim Ward of La Pa
loma.
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“It's certainly a relief from the
jazz to which we have been accus-
tomed” said Houstonians at the
dinner at Matamoros last night when
they heard the sweet strains of “La
Fnloma" played by a Mexican or-
chestra. After which some of them
repaired to a dance hail and ran into
jazz by an American orchestru—from
Houston. t |
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SCHOOL BOARD
ISSUES ORDER
FOR ELECTION
Three New Trustees
Are To Be Chosen;
Bend and Building
Plans Talked Over
An elert'on for the purpose of
selecting throe trustees for the
Brownsville independent school dis-
trict on Saturday. April 3. was or ;
dorod at a meeting of the school j
hoard Thursday night. This meeting
also adopted a resolution recom-
mending to the tax payers of this
district that a bond issue of $100-
000 be \«.tcd on to carry out plans
recommended by the committee on
maintenance and housing to the
board.
The school hoard can only recom-
mend a school bond election now hut
as soon as a petition signed by at
lerst 20 taxpayers is presented the
election can he ordered.
These new plans as announced by
the school board Thursday night call
for a complete reorganization of the
school system in order to make cer-
tain the acquisition of a junior col-
lege for Brownsville and to provide
changes to keep pace with the growth
of the schools.
It is planned to house the fourth
fifth anil sixth grades in the build- |
ing now used for the junior high
school when the new senior high t
building is completed. The junior 1
high will be transferred to the pres-
ent senior high school building and
the high school together with junior
college equipment to the new high ;
school building.
Plan Power House
One of the chief things provided
for in the plans is a combination
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BARREDA BEAL
IS POSTPONED
Completion of Survey
Holds up Transfer
of Big Tract
Unexpected delay in completion of
the survey of the C. P. Barreda tract
amounting to about 10000 acres
much of it along the state highway
between Brownsville and San Benito
and lying ju>t north of Olmito. has
caused an agreement for a postpone-
ment of fio days in the exercise of
the option it was reported today.
C. J. Webster of Kansas City who
Is heading a syndicate of a dozen cap-
italists interested in the deal which
is expected to involve around $1500-
000 has been in Brownsville for sev-
eral days in connection with the deal.
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THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Lower
Rio Grande Valley: Mostly cloudy
and unsettled tonight and Saturday
probably with local showers; not
much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
cloudy tonight and Saturday; prob-
ably showers in southeast portion;
colder tonight in northwest portion;
colder Saturday except in .southeast
portion. Light to fresh southerly
to westerly winds on the coast.
Weather Conditions.
The barometric pressure was mod-
erately low this morning from the
Rio Grande Valley northeastward
to the upper Great Lakes and mod-
erately h;gh over the northwestern
states and over the eastern portion
of the country. Weather conditions
were still somewhat unsettled over
much of the country at the morn-
ing observation hut with precipita-
tion during the last 24 hours mostly
onlv very light and widely scattered.
A further rise in temperatures
throughout the eastern two-thirds
of the United States has resulted in
rather mild weather in the region
named.
The lowest temperature last night
at Texas stations ranged from 4fi at
Amarillo to fi4 at Brownsville and
Corpus Christi.
Saturday noon: Market weather
and news reports. “Living through
payday with the Skipper.’’
| Saturday 6 p. m.: Weekly fun hour.
Advisory Board
Meeting Opened
3 Nations Here
Representatives from Canada Mexico and from most of
the states in the United States all interested in the prob-
lems of shipping assembled in Brownsville today for the
opening session of the Southwest Shippers’ advisory board
am were addressed in the morning session by representative
delegates from these countries.
One of the features of the morning session presided over
by W. B. Spiller of Fort Worth regional chairman was the
international flavor lent to the meeting by the speakers from
other countries. Manuel Chavero. assistant general superin-
tendent of the National Lines of Mexico made a short talk
representing that country and E. A. Cunningham efficiency
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CHURCH RIOTS
San Luis Pptosi Crow d
Fears Plans to Ar-
rest Bishop
MEXICO CITY. March 19.—Special
dispatches from San Luis I’otosl say
that two women and one man were
wounded during a riot growing out
of the popular belief that th'* auth-
orities intended to arrest the Cath-
olic bishop.
Yesterday afternoon municif al
gendarmes unexpectedly appeared at
all the Catholic churches. Excited
crowds congregated. The majority
of them were women. Then follow-
ed a demonstration which almost
reached the proportions of a riot
notwithstanding an announcement
that the gendarmes had only been in-
structed to fulfill orders to limit the
number of priests in the churches
The demonstrations culminat ’d in
♦he authorities calling out federal
troops with machine guns. The
crowd immediately attacked the sol-
diers with stones. The troops fired
and two women and one man were
wounded. The advices say that as
the news spread crowds began to!
come into the city from the neigh-
boring country. The priests urned
the people to be quiet and refrain
frem violence.
The streets of San Luis Potosi
continued crowded with excited
people however until late last night.
The people frequently jeered the
troops patrolling the streets w th
automobiles and machine guns. Many
persons congregated bcf< re the resi-
dence of the bishop. These included
women with baskets filled with
stones. The crowds remained oc-
spite appeals from Bishop Miguel
de la Mora that they disperse.
During the night Governor Abel
Cano issued a proclamation saying
it had never been intended to arrest
thy bishop and that the authorities
were n<>t enemies of religion. The
proclamation added that the people j
must obey the law ami that the auth-
orities intended to enforce the pro-
visions of the Mexican constitution
with regard to churches.
A dispatch to the department of
the interior here from the governor
of San Luis Potosi says the trouble
began because of a recent decree
limiting the number of Catholic
priests to R5. These X5 ministers
were required to make a certain ap-
plication to the local authorities.
N >ne coo.plied and the authorities
ordered *he closing of all cha~cJic a
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TRUCK MARKETS
By Naval Radio to The Herald
from 1'. S. and Texas Agriculture
Departments
Cabbage markets: Kansas City —
Steady. Texas bulk per cwt. $1.75 to
$5.00. St. Louis—Steady. Texas hulk I
per ton $95 to $100 mostly $100. j
Pittsburgh—Firm. Texas bulk per j
ton $85 to $95. Detroit- Firm. Tex- i
as barrel crates $4.75 to $5 00. Ch; |
eago—Steadier. Texas bulk per ton :
$85 to $90.
Carrot markets: St. Louis—tSea-
dy. Texas bushels $1.25 to $1.50.
Philadelphia—Steady. Texas bushels
$1.75 to $2.00. Kansas City—Steady j
Texas bushels $1.25 to $1.50.
eBet markets: New York Texas'
I bushels $1.25 to $1.50 few high as
| $1.75 poorer low as $1.00. St. Louis]
j—Steady. Tex;a* bushels $1.75 to $2. |
1 Pittsburgh -Firm. $1.25 to $1.50 few
| $ 1.7ft. Baltimore—Dull. Texas bu-|
ishels unbunched $1.50 to $1.75.
Cool drizzling. Hauling* very light. |
Shipping point information for j
Thursday March 13: Cabbage: Low-
:er Rio Grande Valley Points Texas:
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engineer ot the t anadian i a-
rific snoke as a representa-
tive of his count rv.
The meeting was late in getting
under way due to the trains being
late in reaching Brownsville. Shortly
before 11 o’clock Chairman Spiller
railed the session to «%dcr and the
discussion of shipping problems
started.
Splawn Sprak«
I'r. \V. M. W. Splawn. president of
the University of Texas was the
first speaker of the morning session.
He spoke of the problems of shipping
giving a survey of the car shortage or
surplus situation since 1907. and. fol-
lowing with the reasons for a short-
age which he gave as lack of fore-
sight failure of plants to turn nut
sufficient cars and engines lack of
labor lack of sufficient terminals
and failure to effectively utilize cars.
A careful study of the situation
and cooperation on the part of the
shippers wil solve these troubles Dr.
Splawn raid.
11. H. Safford. executive vice-presi-
dent of the Gulf Coast Lines was
the next speaker at the meeting and
spoke of the railroad problem from
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Parade of Young Men
Women Fired on by
Soldiers
rKKING March 19. — Thirty-two
persons were dead today as the result
of soldiers firing upon a parade of
2000 young men and women students
in front of the residence of the chief
executive Tuan f hi Jui.
.
terday against the government’s ac-
ceptance of demands of foreign pow-
ers that the blockade of Tientsin be
lifted.
Thirty persons were wounded se-
riously and some thirty others slight-
ly. The dead include 20 students
among them two girls. 1 he soldiers
after beating the students with their
rifles used bayonets and then fired
shots for five minutes.
Negro Acquitted of
Harlingen Slaying
Jim Harris negro was acquitted
in the criminal district court Friday
morning of the charge of slaying a
negro woman Minnie Morgan at
Harlingen on December 10. 192r>. Trial
of Harris had lasted over two days.
Immediately after his acquittal an-
other negro E. Collins w'ent on trial
for the alleged shooting of Jes*e
Griffin a negro on the hoard walk
in Brownsville last March. One of
the first witnesses to take the stand
Friday morning was the widow of
slain man who was with him at the
time of the shooting.
Find Bishop Guilty
On Charge of Fraud
COPENHAGEN Denmark March til
—Ilov. lir. Anton Bast Methodist
Episcopal bishop of Scandinavia was
found guilty by a jury .today of the
fraudulent roncersion of $182000
wroncr .$47684) of charity funds.
The bishop was exonerated on the
second clause of the prosecutor’s
charge that of making public “ap-
peals for charity based on more or
less shamelessly falsified accounts.”
JUSTICE PAI.ACE BURNS
GHENT. Belgium March 10.—The
famous Palace of Justice here was
destroyed by fire today. Many im-
portant historical document# were
burned.
KEMPER FIRED
URGED DELAY
IN RETOPPING
Former Engineer For
State Wrote Com-
mission Paving Was
Good Another Year
(Hr the Associated Press.)
AUSTIN. Texas. March ID.—Copies
of a purported letter by W. l\ Kem-
per until March 15 acting state
highway engineer addressed to the
highway commission March a were
he ng circulated here today. In thi'
letter Kemper recommended the
commission wait a year bef re
awarding asphalt resurfacing con-
I tracts to cover several hundred miles
of highways in Northeast Texas on
which the American Read company
placed the first surface a year ago.
The highway commission did not
follow the recommendations of Mr.
i Kemper but March If* let rctopping
I contracts for 326 miles.
March 5 the commission named
A. Love state highway engineer.
March Hi Chairman Hal Moseley of
the commission tohl The Associated
Press that Mr. Kemper would no
longer be connected with the high-
way department.
Kemper's letter was written after
he had made an inspection of the
highways the commission proposed
to resurface. “The treatment as it
now stands on T5 per cent of the
mileage in all three sections will
give excellent service for another
year with proper maintenance" Mr.
Kemper wrote.
Two weeks ago Attorney General
Dan Moody wrote a letter to the
highway commission charging that
the resurfacing proposals were de-
signed to justify the 30 cents a
a square yard paid the American
Road company whi h X vember "0
confessed judgment for 1600.000 ex-
*ess highway profit*. Moody also
charged that bituminous asphalt sur-
facing was not durable and at best
only temporary. The attorney gen-
eral threatened to bring litigation
if bituminous asphalt resurfac ng
contracts were awarded.
NEAR DEATH
Second Victim on Cut-
ting Affray Not Ex-
pected to Live
(By ihe As<oc»tn1 Pre«s.)
MEADOW Tex.. March ID.— Little
hope was held out today for the re-
covery of William Fisher. stabbed
Wednesday at the time his brother-
in-law Frank Howard ‘was fatally
wounded by a tenant farmer in a dis-
pute over a horse trade.
Sheriff Ellington of Terry county
who with six deputies scoured the
country Wednesday night Thursday
and Thursday night without locating
the stahber has aroused the who e
surrounding country to aid in the
search.
It developed today after Howard
had been mortally wounded and FUh-
or also stabbed that the horse trader
walked from the house to the high-
way. half a mile away and there was
given a “lift” by O. K. Congate
whom he asked to let him off four
miles away. Congate said the man
seemed entirely cool and collected
ai.d did not arouse his suspicions in
any wav.
! Officers v.sited the slayer s house
I at Itopeville. where they found his
wife and children. They had not
heard of the affair nor seen the
husband and father they said.
DIES OF INJURIES
SAN ANGELO. Tex. March 19.—L
I*. Sawyer about r»0 general foreman
for the W. T. Montgomery Construc-
tion company at Sonora died in a lo-
cal hospital this morning from in-
juries sustained late Thursday when
an automobile overturned near So-
nora. killing A. D. Babb 72 con-
tractor of Fort Worth. Sawyer's
skull was crushed. Funeral arrange-
ments have not been mare.
GREEK PRESIDENT QUITS
ATHENS Greece March 19.—Ad-
miral Coimdouriotis has resigned the
Greek presidency. An election will
be held April 4 to decide his succes-
sor.
SWORE IN CALVIN HERE
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John C. Coolidge who died last night is seen at the
table where he swore in his son. Calvin as President of
the United States in a photo taken before his fatal ill-
ness. Note the Bible at his side.
ARE FAVORED
I. C. C. Examiners Ask.
Permits For Lines
in West Texas
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON 1>. C\. March 19—
Interstate commerce commission ex-
aminers in a tentative report have
recommenced to the commission the
i grant ng of authority to the Texas J
j Panhandle and Gulf railroad to con-
struct 303 miles of railroad from
j Seymour Texas to Tucumcari New
I Mexico.
Approval was recommenced on con-
dition that the railroad construct
certain lines or make arrangements
I for extending its service into Plain-
view and Lubbock Texas and j er-
j feet other arrangements whereby
J its proper financing and operation
will he assured
1 Another examiner's report reconi-
| mended that the commission approve
the ai pii< ation of the Chi *ago deck
Island and Pacific railroad to con-
; struct a line from Amir Jlo Texas.
1 to Liberal Kansas a distance of 143
| miles.
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THEATER IS BEST
HALL GIVEN BOARD
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Brownsville has furnished the
i Southwest Advisory B *.ard. now in
I convention here with the hest meet-
ing place it ever has had. officials of
I the board said Friday morning. There
are about ’>00 members meeting at
the Queen theater.
Floral decorations for the theater
1 were arranged through the efforts of
j Mrs. Hilmnr Fabra who saw to it
that an abundance of flowers were
available to brighten the interior of
■ the building.
Oth«»r flowers were displayed at
j the chamber of commerce rooms by
Mrs. George Walker.
General response of Brownsville’s
citizens in helping furnish accommo-
dations for the visitors during *he
shortage of hotel rooms here caused i
by the influx of visitors delegates to )
the convention is highly appreciated
by those in charge of entertaining
the members of the hoard. H. F.
Hovey. representative of the Amer-
ican Railway association wishes to
thank those who came to the aid of
the chamber of commerce in finding
rooms and beds for the visitors.
WOULD PUT TAIL
LIGHTS OS CATS
(By the Associate1 Press.)
CHICAGO. HI- March l!». —
After an amendment has been
offered to compel cats and dogs
to wear tail lights at night the
cit\ council voted down a reso-
lution that would have required
hi.fM-i to he equipped with red
tail lights at night.
“This is a serious matter.”
Alderman Donald McKinley
author of the resolution declar-
ed healed!}. “There are lots of
horesov in m> ward and when
spring comes there will he a lot
more. Some of ihrm are going
to get hurt.”
Texas Association
Convention is
Being Held
(By The Associated Tress.)
GALVESTON' Texas. March 19.—
More tha i four hundred delegates
to the Texas Cotton association ns*
semhled this morning from all parts
of the Untied States and Europe to
meet In the fifteenth annual conven-
tion of the association.
President Morris E. Berney of Fort
Worth called the meeting to order
at 10:30 and introduced J. E. Pearce.
Mayor of Galveston who formally
welcomed the delegate* to the city.
The high I ghts of the morning's
events were the arrival of the spe-
cial train from Houston bringing
’ approximately 250 delegates who
were picked up in Houston; the an-
nual address delivered by the presi-
dent. Mr. Berney; addresses by Rich-
ard Harris pres.dent of the New
Y rk Cotton exchange; Sam T. Hub-
hard Jr. vice president of the New
York cotton exchange; D. K. McCuen
president of the Atlantic states cot-
tonu association; Frank P. Haines
New Orleans Cotton exchange; W. It.
Meadows of the Chicago Board of
Trade and others.
The universal plea heard through-
out the talks was the greater coop-
eration between the buyers and the
value of close understanding between
the different branches of the indus-
try.
In the president's address the
value and usefulness of the associa-
tion -was pointed out. Mr. Berney
emphasized the success due to co-
operation among buyers and the dif-
ferent cotton association*.
END COMES AS \
PRESIDENT IS <
ON WAY HOME
Simple Services Will
Mark F uneral of
Calvin’s Father in
Vermont Town
PLYMOUTH. Vt. Marchi
19.—Saddened by his father's
death- President Coolidge
came back today to this isol-
ated almost snowbound ham-
let where he was born and
lived as a boy.
At the end of a hurried
iourney from Washington the
la<t few miles of which were
covered in an open sleigh he
spent an hour in the seclusion
of the farm house where bis
eighty-year old father Col-
onel John C. Coolidge passed
away last night. Then he re-
turned to Woodstock 16 miles
away to remain until tomor-
row when funeral services will
be held.
The services vv 1! he brier and
marked by utmost simplicity. Burial
will be in the nearby country ceme-
tery. and immediately afterwards the
president and Mrs. Coolidge are ex-
| pe< te 1 to depart for the capitol. The
I president’s son John a student at
Amherst college came here with hia V
parents. i „
Although it had been expected that
funeral services would be held in. t t
' the frame church across the road
from the Coolidge homestead it
was decided to hold them in the farm
house jnrlor which adjoins the sit-
j ting room where in August 1923
! Colonel Coolidge administered the
»ath of president to his son. .
Died I.ast Night
The services w H be conducted by
; the Reverend John White of Sher-
burne wh al o preaches here. He
! will use the revised burial office of
the Ep sco pa I church. There will bo
I no hymns and no eulogy.
The end came at 10:41 o’clock last
night to the country merchant jus-
tice of the peace and former member
of a governor’s staff upon whose
h mely rural cureer special attention
began to be focused when he ad-
ministered the presidential oath of
[ office to his son in the family home-
stead by the light of a kerosene
| lamp. This was at the death of
I President Harding. Colonel Coolidgu
was the otHy father of a president
t ■ have such a distinction. In two
week* he would have been 81 years . -
■ age.
Leaving Washington in the after-
noon when news came that the In-
evitable ending of his father’s pro-
tracted illness was in sight tho
: res dent was between New York and
Bridgeport Conn. on his special
! train a> his father died. The news
was given to the train at Bridgeport
■ about an hour after death occurred.
Ends l ong Fight
A long and valiant struj?£la
with illness and age ended when
j Colonel Coolidge gave up the spark
| of life after a week of steadily fail-
j ing strength. A heart attack early
yesterday proved to be the beginning
j of the end. Hi* passing was without
pain and very peaceful.
In the white farm house where the
president spent his boyhood days a
faithful guard watched today by the
bier of "the squire of Plymouth.”
Deputy Sheriff Angus Macauley who
acted as bodyguard for Colonel
Coolidge since his health failed Ii-
| nully last June remained at his post.
A few of the neighbors came to pay
! their la.st respects but while other*
came and went Macauley kept vigil
1 always. ... t„
The large parlor of the farm house
where the casket was placed held
many associations. Folding • door*
I had been thrown open to include
i in one room the parlor and the littlo
j s iting room in which the colonel in
August 11‘23 administered the oath
to his son as president. In this same
; room six years ago the body of the
colonel’s wife lay in state while
neighbors passed in silent final tri-
bute. \
This is the fifth time since he be-
came the chief executive that Presi-
dent Coolidge hag visited Plymouth
and of these visits three have been
made in circumstances of sorrow. In
the summer of 1924 the president
and Mr*. Coolidge came here in order
that their son Calvin might rest
with his ancestor* in the hillside
cemetery. Last June the president
was summonly hastily from hi* sum-
mer home at Swampscott Mass.
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The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 258, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926, newspaper, March 19, 1926; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1379311/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .